Celebrating our Bicentennial

Juana Azurduy

She was born on July 12 , 1780. She is the representative of thousands of anonymous women who fought for the emancipation of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata.
She studied in “Convento de Santa Teresa de Chuquisaca” to become a nun but she was fired at 17 years old because she was a rebel.
In 1805, she married Colonel Manuel Padilla Asencia . In 1812 , Azurduy organized the " Batallón Leales” and with her husband were put under the command of General Belgrano who gave him his sword in recognition of his struggle.
Azurduy , who fought even while pregnant and lost her children in the fight against the troops of the Spanish conquest, died in poverty in Sucre on May 25, 1862 . She was buried in a mass grave and their remains were exhumed just a hundred years later and placed in a mausoleum built in his honor in the city of Sucre .

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